{"id":8,"date":"2016-11-23T00:34:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T00:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oceanwp.org\/stylish\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:49:29","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/damgallery.nl\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Welcome to DAM GALLERY<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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It is artists who keep art alive<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Hello, we are the DAM GALLERY. We provide opportunities for professional artist of all ages from around the world to display their art and introduce themselves to the community. The DAM GALLERY is located in the NDSM in Amsterdam and will welcome every art movement, technique and style. <\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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EXHIBITION UMUT HEV\u0130 \u00c7EL\u0130K\n\n
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Umut Hevi \u00c7elik was born in 1985 in Ta\u015fl\u0131\u00e7ay, a district of A\u011fr\u0131 located in the eastern region of T\u00fcrkiye. His early life was shaped by the austere geography, the profound silence, and the monumental solitude of the region. These formative experiences infused with the socio-political realities of growing up as a Kurdish-origin citizen in T\u00fcrkiye constitute the foundational layers of his artistic and existential inquiries. Issues of identity, belonging, and collective memory, often marked by erasure and repression are central to both his personal history and his artistic production.
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\u00c7elik\u2019s engagement with art began at a young age. Prior to his formal education at Uluda\u011f University\u2019s Faculty of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 2013 with a degree in Art Education, he received training in drawing and painting under the guidance of established artists such as Mustafa Karya\u011fd\u0131 and G\u00fcnal Salt. These early pedagogical encounters were instrumental in shaping his sustained interest in the human figure, which remains a critical element in his sculptural and pictorial language.
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In 2017, \u00c7elik established Nu Hevi Art Studio, a space that functions not only as a site of artistic production but also as a locus of resistance, agency, and autonomous expression. Since its founding, the studio has yielded over 300 works encompassing both sculpture and painting. His material choices ranging from ceramic, bronze, and fiber to plexiglass, wood, metal, and aluminum are marked by a dual concern for technical precision and conceptual resonance.
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\u00c7elik\u2019s practice engages critically with contemporary socio-political issues, including sexual violence, structural marginalization, ecological degradation, and the politics of sustainability. For the artist, art serves as a space of remembrance, confrontation, and repair. His figural works often centered around representations of the female body act as corporeal vessels for silenced narratives, unspoken traumas, and suppressed historical memories. Each sculpture emerges as a site where pain, resistance, and regeneration intersect.
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A key dimension of \u00c7elik\u2019s practice is his commitment to ecological consciousness and sustainable methodologies. The transformation and repurposing of discarded materials reflect not only an aesthetic decision but also an ethical stance. His sensitivity to the environment, the body, and the broader conditions of existence is inscribed not merely in the materiality of his works, but in their conceptual and affective cores.
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His oeuvre has been featured in several thematic exhibitions, including The Color of Freedom and Wings of the Birds. In 2025, his solo exhibition Qalik (Shell) in Amsterdam marked a significant milestone in his career, allowing his practice to engage with new cultural and political contexts on an international platform.
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